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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION COLUMBIA, MISSOURI CIRCULAR 163 OCTOBER, 1924 Feeding For Egg Production H. L. KEMPSTER Fig. 1.-Heavy egg production requires correct feeding. Feeding hens for egg production has for its purpose the efficient transformation of the ordinary poultry food stuffs, chiefly produced on the farm, into eggs. The efficiency of the hen in the production of human food depends upon her inherent ability to lay eggs, coupled with suitable protection and adequate rations. A flock of hens averaging 150 eggs per hen per year is not at all unusual. Such a flock will produce two eggs for every pound of feed consumed or a pound of eggs for every four pounds of feed. For 1926 the flocks of 327 farmers, cooperating with the Missouri College of Agriculture and following its recommendations, secured a production per hen of 130 eggs. The records from these farms

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UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION COLUMBIA, MISSOURI CIRCULAR 163 OCTOBER, 1924 Feeding For Egg Production H. L. KEMPSTER Fig. 1.-Heavy egg production requires correct feeding. Feeding hens for egg production has for its purpose the efficient transformation of the ordinary poultry food stuffs, chiefly produced on the farm, into eggs. The efficiency of the hen in the production of human food depends upon her inherent ability to lay eggs, coupled with suitable protection and adequate rations. A flock of hens averaging 150 eggs per hen per year is not at all unusual. Such a flock will produce two eggs for every pound of feed consumed or a pound of eggs for every four pounds of feed. For 1926 the flocks of 327 farmers, cooperating with the Missouri College of Agriculture and following its recommendations, secured a production per hen of 130 eggs. The records from these farms